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[167] Compare the French proverb, "Le beau soulier blesse souvent le pied."
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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"Non, mais j'ai le soulier du boucher," etc. After what seemed an eternity, the wagon of the doctor appeared, so did the _schimmel_.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886
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Le trou trop overt sous le nez fait porter soulier dechirez.
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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"Vous voilà enfin, et moi, qui suis accablée de peur, et votre chère mère aussi; oh, mais que c'est méchant; et regardez donc, avec un soulier seulement.
Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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